NHS Commissioning Board: Pay

Tessa Munt: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he approved the salaries of the (a) Chief Executive, (b) Non-Executive Chairman and (c) the National Directors on the Executive Board of the NHS Commissioning Board.

Sajid Javid: The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling), does not routinely approve senior salaries in the public sector.
	They are subject to scrutiny and approval from the appropriate Secretary of State. In May 2010, it was announced that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my right hon. Friend the Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Danny Alexander), would be required to sign-off any new appointments, in areas under ministerial control, with a salary over a full-time equivalent of £142,500.